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Set up the environment with Ansible and Docker

Setting up Docker

Use this guide to configure ansible as a docker container.

Here are some resources that might help assist in standing up the docker and ansible.

Using Playbooks

Here are some tips and tricks for running ansible.

Example Playbook

---
- name: Update web servers
  hosts: webservers
  remote_user: root

  tasks:
    - name: Ensure apache is at the latest version
      ansible.builtin.yum:
        name: httpd
        state: latest
    - name: Write the apache config file
      ansible.builtin.template:
        src: /srv/httpd.j2
        dest: /etc/httpd.conf

- name: Update db servers
  hosts: databases
  remote_user: root

  tasks:
    - name: Ensure postgresql is at the latest version
      ansible.builtin.yum:
        name: postgresql
        state: latest
    - name: Ensure that postgresql is started
      ansible.builtin.service:
        name: postgresql
        state: started

Running the Playbook

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -f 10

Objectives

1. Run ansible using only Docker.
2. Create a simple ansible playbook
3. Run the playbook using the Docker environment